Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...since the morning of June 25, underestimated and looked down upon initially by their American comrades-in-arms, ignored by 90% of the correspondents covering the Korean war, these South Korean troops have written the first pages of their country's military history in a way that will make future generations proud of them...
...Truman has never cared for Shangri-La, Franklin Roosevelt's old vacation hangout in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Md., but last week, under Mrs. Truman's urging, he reluctantly consented to pay it a weekend visit. It was a gloomy trip. The weather was enough to make even a President say, "I told you so»-the temperature went down to 40°, it rained & rained, and daughter Margaret developed a miserable toothache. When Harry Truman got back home, White House aides guessed that Shangri-La would never see him again...
...what not even Franklin Roosevelt had had the temerity to do. He ordered Douglas MacArthur to shut up. The President's summary order arrived in Tokyo shortly after midnight Monday morning. There, in his headquarters in the Dai Ichi building, General MacArthur made the only decision he could make. He silently saluted his commander in chief across 6,769 miles of land and ocean, and shut...
Being only human, Congressmen are more inclined to support the United Nations in important little ways if some of their colleagues are serving in its General Assembly. To make the most of this instinct, Harry Truman decided that there should always be a Congressman from each party serving in the Assembly. Last week, as a result, he appointed two new delegates for the 1950 Assembly-Massachusetts G.O.P. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Alabama's Democratic Senator John J. Sparkman...
...President turned a deaf ear to a stirring proposition put before him by several high-placed leaders of the C.I.O.-that irascible old John L. Lewis be made a delegate and sent in to make faces, quote Shakespeare and give Russia's Jake Malik the same business he has given the coal operators for lo these many years. Nobody really took the idea seriously, but a good many labor politicos were still wistfully envisioning the thunderous clash which might result. Said one: "What a television program THAT would make...